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Figurative Language Quiz: 2022

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Two or more words that start with the same letter or the same sound. The words must be close to each other in the sentence. 

Personification 

Metaphor 

Allusion 

Onomatopoeia 

Alliteration 

Compares two different things using the key words 'like' or 'as.' 

Metaphor 

Oxymoron 

Simile 

Hyperbole 

Onomatopoeia 

An exaggerated statement often used for emphasis. 

Oxymoron 

Hyperbole 

Imagery 

Onomatopoeia 

Personification 

Words that imitate sounds. 

Oxymoron 

Metaphor 

Allusion 

Onomatopoeia 

Alliteration 

Compares two different things without using 'like' or 'as.' 

Simile 

Personification 

Metaphor 

Oxymoron 

Alliteration 

Descriptive writing that appeals to the five senses (such as taste, touch, smell, etc.) 

Personification 

Oxymoron 

Alliteration 

Imagery 

Hyperbole 

Giving human qualities/traits to things that are not human. 

Metaphor 

Personification 

Onomatopoeia 

Oxymoron 

Allusion 

Two opposite words that are placed side by side in the same sentence. 

Oxymoron 

Onomatopoeia 

Hyperbole 

Metaphor 

Alliteration 

The leaves fell gracefully to the ground, twirling like ballerinas.

Metaphor 

Simile 

Oxymoron 

Hyperbole 

The turkey was a magnet, drawing in all members of the family with its delicious scent.

Oxymoron 

Onomatopoeia 

Metaphor 

Hyperbole 

The wishbone made a large crack when the siblings broke it apart.

Oxymoron 

Onomatopoeia 

Simile 

Metaphor 

Whenever the family got together on special occasions like this, time flew by so quickly

Alliteration 

Oxymoron 

Metaphor 

Personification 

During the San Francisco Turkey Bowl, the football screamed through the air hitting a spectator in the stands!

Onomatopoeia 

Alliteration 

Personification 

Hyperbole 

When my brother broke his aunt’s crystal vase, he was as nervous as a turkey on Thanksgiving.

Metaphor 

Hyperbole 

Personification 

Simile 

The farmer snuck up behind the turkey, and after hearing the turkey’s gobble, he jumped on his prey.

Onomatopoeia 

Alliteration 

Personification 

Hyperbole 

The meal my mother prepared for Thanksgiving was awfully delicious!

Simile 

Personification 

Onomatopoeia 

Oxymoron 

The New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade was moving through Manhattan when thunder began to grumble.

Metaphor 

Simile 

Personification 

Hyperbole 

The ocean’s water splished and splashed against the Mayflower as it voyaged to the New World.

Simile 

Hyperbole 

Oxymoron 

Onomatopoeia 

My brother didn’t know where everyone was supposed to sit for Thanksgiving dinner, so he put the place settings in random order.

Personification 

Metaphor 

Oxymoron 

Alliteration 

My mother’s pumpkin pie is a slice of heaven.

Simile 

Metaphor 

Personification 

Oxymoron 

When Susie took the last piece of peanut butter pie, I could have cried for a million years. 

Personification 

Hyperbole 

Simile 

Oxymoron 

Dad said, "I'm so hungry, I could eat a million turkeys." 

Personification 

Alliteration 

Oxymoron 

Hyperbole 

Uncle Jackson was a skyscrapper standing next to grandma. 

Metaphor 

Simile 

Onomatopoeia 

Personification 

The kitchen table shook under the weight of the feast that lay upon it. 

Personification 

Metaphor 

Oxymoron 

Simile 

Food circulated around the table in a furious flurry of flying bowls and plates. 

Hyperbole 

Alliteration 

Oxymoron 

Onomatopoeia 

Happy chatter mixed in with the clinking and clanging of silverware on china. 

Which word from the above sentence is NOT an example of onomatopoeia? 

clinking 

silverware 

clanging 

mixed

Everyone pounced _____________________ for a serving of Grandmother's mashed potatoes. 

Choose the simile that completes the sentence. 

at the same time 

like cats on a mouse 

as fast as possible 

in a bunch 

Normally, I wouldn't eat green beans for a million dollars, but the ones hidden in Aunt Emma's casserole were very tasty. 

This person's opinion on green beans is expressed as - 

a simile 

onomatopoeia 

a hyperbole 

personfication 